Biology

Diversity in Living Organisms

Question:

Name the first animals (phylum) that have a true body cavity.

Answer:

Annelida
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Diversity in Living Organisms

Q 1.

Name a reptile which has four chambered heart.

Q 2.

In which kingdom would you place an organism which is unicellular, eukaryotic and photosynthetic?

Q 3.

Why bryophytes are called the amphibians of the plant kingdom?

Q 4.

List important characteristics (at least three) of bryophytes.

Q 5.

How is locomotion brought in animals belonging to Mollusca phylum?

Q 6.

Woese introduced by dividing the Monera kingdom into two sub-kingdoms. Name the two?

Q 7.

Give three examples of Molluscs

Q 8.

Based on evolution, primarily how organisms are categorised?

Q 9.

In how many kingdoms Carolus Linnaeus diving living beings?

Q 10.

How Angiosperms are divided further?

Q 11.

Give examples of Porifera or Sponges.

Q 12.

Give examples of Arthropod animals.

Q 13.

Name the phylum to which this organism belongs. Write any two characteristic feature of the phylum.

Q 14.

Amar, Ujala and Anara wrote the scientic name of mango as follows. Who wrote it correctly.
Amar - Mangifera Indica
Ujala - Mangifera indica
Anara - mangifera indica

Q 15.

Will advanced organisms be the same as complex organisms? Why?

Q 16.

In which kingdom, you will place an organism which is multicellular, eukaryotic, heterotroph, lacks chlorophyll and has an ingestive mode of nutrition.

Q 17.

What is Symbiotic? Give an example of organisms which exhibit this relationship.

Q 18.

Which animal phylum is considered to be first triploblastic animals?

Q 19.

Name the simplest of plants that do not have a well-differentiated body design.

Q 20.

Pines and Deodar belong to which group of Plants?

Q 21.

Sunflower, Maize, Wheat and Pea belong to which group of plants?

Q 22.

Hydra, Jelly Fish, corals belog to which group of animals?

Q 23.

Filarial worms, (Ascaris)round worms, (Wuchereria)pin worms belong to which group of animalia?

Q 24.

Give three examples of Protochordata animals.

Q 25.

What is the main basis of differentiation between vertebrates and non-vertebrates?

Q 26.

Four Chambered heart, mostly viviparous, skin covered with hairs, skin contains sweat and oil glands, four chambered heart. Which category of vertebrates are we talking about?

Q 27.

Give an example of marsupial mammal

Q 28.

Give an example of mammal that can fly.

Q 29.

Who is known as the father of taxonomy?

Q 30.

Name the levels of classification proposed by Linnaeus. What happens to similarities among organisms as we go from top to bottom level?

Q 31.

Blue-green algae are classified with bacteria and placed in kingdom Monera.

Q 32.

Which division among plants has the simplest organisms?

Q 33.

Which phylum is commonly called roundworms or pinworms?

Q 34.

Differentiate between Annelida and Nematode.

Q 35.

What is the type of circulatory system present in Arthropods?

Q 36.

What kind of circulatory system is found in animals from Mollusca phylum?

Q 37.

Which in your opinion is more basic characteristic for classifying organism. The place where they live in or the kind of cells they are made of?

Q 38.

Who introduced the system of scientific nomenclature of organisms?

Q 39.

Write the name of the group of plants, which produces seeds, but not fruits.

Q 40.

Identify the division of Plantae having following characteristics:
i. Seeds not enclosed within fruit.
ii. Flowers represented as cones (unisexual)
iii. Ovules not located in ovary.

Q 41.

Identify plant group which has parallel venation, scattered vascular bundles, flower petals/parts in multiple of three, fibrous roots.

Q 42.

Which is the largest group of animals?

Q 43.

No scales on skin, mucus glands on skin, three chambered heart, respiration through gills, lungs and skin, oviparous, live on land and in water. Name the group of these vertebrates.

Q 44.

What changes are evolved in limbs of aves?

Q 45.

What is the primary reason for such a huge diversity we find in animals and plants?

Q 46.

What is the primary characteristic on which the first division of organisms is made?

Q 47.

Who wrote the book The Origin of Species?

Q 48.

Who identified the Fungi as a separate multicellular eukaryotic kingdom and introduced five kingdoms? Name the five kingdoms.

Q 49.

According to the five-kingdom system, which kingdom contains organisms whose structure is composed of prokaryotic cells?

Q 50.

How do the saprophytes get their food? Give two examples of a saprophyte.